by coincident, I had some changes to my living arrangement so I was able to carry out the experiment
1st day: less than 2 hours screen time, almost 0 screen time after 1200 [noon], dreamless, but I was quite exhaust that day
2nd day: even less screen time and almost 0 screen time after 1200 [noon], I had a dream, felt to me like any standard dream, I was even more exhaust than the 1st day
3rd day: ~3 hours of screen time and almost 0 screen time 2 hours before sleep, 2 phases sleep, 1 phase dreamless, woke up at 0300 , back to sleep, phase 2 I had a dream, felt to me like any standard dream,
4th day: ~4 hours of screen time and almost 0 screen time 1 hours before sleep I had a dream, felt to me like any standard dream,
this seems more than the standard 30% chance of dreaming per day, so there maybe something to your assertion but I think it could be confounded by large-scale contextual disruptions increasing dream frequency [which may explain your situation as well] since I was moving to a new place
Undermind said this:
Acute environmental changes robustly modulate dream recall frequency: moving sleep into a lab tends to reduce recall per awakening relative to home, whereas large-scale contextual disruptions like COVID‑19 lockdowns generally increase nightly dream and especially nightmare recall in the acute phase, with partial normalization as people adapt
?good timing,
by coincident, I had some changes to my living arrangement so I was able to carry out the experiment
1st day: less than 2 hours screen time, almost 0 screen time after 1200 [noon], dreamless, but I was quite exhaust that day
2nd day: even less screen time and almost 0 screen time after 1200 [noon], I had a dream, felt to me like any standard dream, I was even more exhaust than the 1st day
3rd day: ~3 hours of screen time and almost 0 screen time 2 hours before sleep, 2 phases sleep, 1 phase dreamless, woke up at 0300 , back to sleep, phase 2 I had a dream, felt to me like any standard dream,
4th day: ~4 hours of screen time and almost 0 screen time 1 hours before sleep I had a dream, felt to me like any standard dream,
this seems more than the standard 30% chance of dreaming per day, so there maybe something to your assertion but I think it could be confounded by large-scale contextual disruptions increasing dream frequency [which may explain your situation as well] since I was moving to a new place
Undermind said this:
https://app.undermind.ai/report/c7715f49ff459aad7314d809dc9f974c16f613d7564f1858c2ca7be25fc4de69